| Re: "Chilly response to ice queen preview," by Michael A. Green, Letters, January 11-17, 2007.
Friends and acquaintances have been asking me recently about a letter to the editor that you published. I didn't catch it, but it was apparently written by one Michael Green.
As your readers are no doubt aware, Michael Green is one of the more common names in the phone book, after such monikers as David Smith. I am, in fact, a member-in-good-standing of an informal entity playfully known as The Michael Green Club. Rules for membership are simple, and there are only two. First, your name must be correctly pronounced as "Michael Green." It doesn't matter how it's spelled. Second, each member is honour bound to avoid denouncing the whimsical shenanigans of any other member with statements such as, "Oh, that's not me. That's another Michael Green."
As a result of these club rules, my friend Michael Greene of Sherritt Greene Barristers and Solicitors has had to shrug his shoulders and change the topic when colleagues question the appropriateness of his racy stage performances at Ottawa's National Arts Centre, or here at our own Big Secret Theatre. Likewise, I can only grin and bear it when strangers on the street demand to know why I continue to publish articles about wine when I would appear to know so little about the topic; or when they question "my" sputtering rebuttals to the local arts weekly film reviewer for instance.
You've got to be a good sport to get the most out of membership in The Michael Green Club. We are currently recruiting new members.
Michael Green, One Yellow Rabbit co-artistic director
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